Poor Chick
In the Brooder
- Apr 3, 2025
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I have a 2 week old Barred Rock chick, who is the same size as the one week old chicks. She has always slept more than the others and had loose stool, when I've seen her go. I've had to clean her bottom a few times. They are fed fermented organic feed and have had vitamins and electrolytes in their water from day one. Yesterday she crashed. She will only move to scoot closer to the other chicks. I started feeding her an egg yolk electrolyte mixture one drop at a time from a syringe, but can only get 1 to 1.5 ml in her every hour or so. Last night I started them all on Corid water, because I didn't want to risk it being that and losing them all. When I gave her 1 ml of the corid water, she threw some of it up. I had noticed in previous feedings that her crop was a very little gurgly, and she acted like she had to re-swallow at times. Next feeding I mixed Corid water with egg yolk and she kept that down. This morning after not having anything for 7 hours, her crop was extremely gurgly, but she kept down 1.5 ml of the mixture. I let her go 4 hours after that feeding and then felt her crop, it was soft and squishy, not empty, but also not huge. I gave her 1.5 ml and she kept having to re-swallow, and at the end a little bubbled out her beak. What should I do? I haven't noticed any smell from her crop, but obviously it's not emptying properly. Do I keep on with the Corid water? Do I treat her for sour crop, and if so how do I do that for one so small?